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Andrew asks about the homemade wood preservative:

Hi,

I found your post about the homemade wood treatment very informative! You mentioned at the end that you would post a recipe that didn’t use the antifreeze. Maybe I missed it, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. I’d be interested in that preservative, though… We will be building an Aspen cabin this spring, and need to give the logs a borate treatment once they’re peeled to avoid the black sapstain… I would prefer not to boil down the glycol in my kitchen, though, even though they call it “non-toxic”…. kwim? ;-)

Thanks,
Andrew

Hello Andrew –

I’ll have to go back and check — I thought I had posted that — regardless it is simply the boric acid and water –

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Have you been dreaming about building a log home but didn’t know where to start? Paging through theFred Masey Logger Rhythmstypical log home magazines doesn’t help much as they tend to focus on the extreme “McLog and McLodge” homes of several thousand square feet in remote mountainous locations with exclusive views and heliport pads.

Unfortunately the log homes that they feature are simply out of reach for most so unless you have the cash of the elite the message is clear – keep dreamin’ cuz you cant afford it.

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Reader’s Question: Interior Chinking Recipe

Phil is working on a mountain cabin and writes –
I have been building what started as a relatively small cabin, now 5 years later with two timber frame additions in the mountains of Va. The first chinking I used was a mixture of cement sand and dirt and it seemed to crack a fair [...]

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Log Home Video: Building a Log Home

Here is a fun video of a man building his own log home.
The video is a slide show showing his progress
He has done a wonderful job.

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